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Greenland Ice Sheet CCI

Submitted by Dag Evensberget on Tue, 2015-04-14 16:56

Over the last decade, the Greenland Ice Sheet has shown rapid change, characterized by rapid thinning along the margins, accelerating outlet glaciers, and overall increasing mass loss. The state of the Greenland Ice Sheet is of global importance, and has consequently been included in the CCI Programme, described by several Essential Climate Variables (ECVs).

The CCI ESA data will be supplemented with partner agency data from missions such as Landsat and GRACE in order to provide consistent, long term time series of these five parameters.

All data is made available to the public in a transparent format. We believe that the data sets produced are of great societal importance, particularly due to the connection between Ice Sheets changes and future global sea level changes.